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Coffee,Tea英语演讲稿
Coffee,Tea英语演讲稿1One of my friends used to tell me about a girl he once met on a train tour. She was an art student majoring in traditional Chinese painting. Every day she woke up with the sun, took a bath, poured a cup of tea for herself and then began to paint. She never used computers or mobile phones. My friend’s life back then seemed to be a remarkable contrast. He was a researcher at Microsoft. With instant coffee he began his day and spent the rest of the morning writing code. At that time, he admitted, he was touched by another life style and therefore started to reflect on his own. He categorized the two as tea and coffee. He said when he was all logic about his obligations and had to use caffeine to stay focused, he finally learned another possibility, a possibility that enables you to live artistically, but a possibility that most of us are never able to reach.
There indeed are moments when we stop to look at what we have and become jealous of those who are brave enough to go after an idyllic life. Like Henry David Thoreau, by his reclusive living at the Walden he fronted only the essential facts of life, declared of independence and simplicity. We at occasions wish we had the same courage. But we don’t. Because we are at the same time jealous of those who live with a sense of self-fulfillment as their life is so organized that it appears to be flawless as well. We enjoy the “coffee” side too.
The dilemma is that we keep telling ourselves we cannot have them both. But the fact is, for most of the times, we are puzzled by choices that we don’t have to make. Living deep does not mean a conflict with realism. Thoreau himself could manage to be an inpidualist anarchist on his voyage of spiritual discovery, and Adam Smith used to lecture us on how happiness originates from inner peace. Just think of the taste of the Green Tea Latte at Starbucks, mixed with the fragrance of tea and the delightful bitterness of coffee. This is the smell of life.